Which is better a bought reef or.....

[grouch]

Oh and I totally wish I had a tank big enough for full size gorgo colonies! some dive in 8 foot tall glass front fish room would be awesome!!![/QUOTE]

Just seal up your windows and doors and fill the house full of water. LOL And yes Eve does have a beautiful tank. And yes I would probably buy larger colonies and have a much larger tank but I have many other financial responsibilities right now. I always though life would get easiers the older I got but I was wrong !!!

[allan]

Still holding to frags rather than colonies. It's not the FTS that impresses me a week after the tank's cycle. It's the FTS after a year or two that shows the maturation of a year or two of hard work.


There was a thread somewhere here that showed a lot of rich folks and their tanks. Built and brought in by professionals, the owners knew nothing of the work that goes to maintaining or growing it. It's solely an aesthetic addition to their homes and offices.

It's all good to me. It looks nice, and that is a good thing. I have a feeling that a lot of those tanks change colonies from week to month.

Would like to clarify one thing though. LR with Frags (LRWF?).... it's the beginning of a tank! It's expected, actually I would say that it's the beginning of a reef. It's the way they start. Simple as that. I take more pleasure in seeing a coral double in size over a month or three, than increasing in size by .5% over a month.
But I've also picked up softies or LPS that were large such as my devil's hand, or that green disk plate looking coral that I've had for two years and has grown a centimeter. I've a frogspawn with 12-15 heads, and another one 9-12. The former was given to me about a month ago, and the latter was given to me by Bstreep when he was tearing his tank down as a single head. I like both, but get more satisfaction from the one I got from Bill.

When I got the frag of red planet from Rob... well, I think he may have seen something in my eyes.. or imagined it. It was a small flat thing on a plug, and I was expecting/wanting branches. He told me right away "don't worry bro-dudeski, it will grow out for a minute then start sending up branches and then it will be red." Now I have a large colony (yes, it can be seen from the door) that continously amazes me.

Nothing in this hobby happens fast, nor do I think a tank with small frags means anything other than "Oh, no worries, it's a young tank." For who hasn't longed for the coraline growth only to lament it later when scraping it off the glass?

[alton]

Hey a spicey topic, I am not bored anymore.

[350gt]

Well said Allan....

And I didn't mean for this to get spicy or out of hand.... Just wanted everyone's opinions on this...
And so far that's all I've got was good opinions....

[alton]

Well said Allan....

And I didn't mean for this to get spicy or out of hand.... Just wanted everyone's opinions on this...
And so far that's all I've got was good opinions....

This is one of the best things I like about MAAST today we can have topics that people can agree to disagree without name calling like on other sites. (Back in 2003/4 you would have several bleeps by now)

[350gt]

Haha I should have joined back then.....

[Cammed_02]

Haha I should have joined back then.....

This!

haha

[allan]

Alton is right, and I wasn't even around back then... but we had our moments in '08 and '09... beginning of '10?

I met a dude here, lives up the street in new brunsfel. He had like three or four coral in this 75 gallon tank. Beautiful. He was growing out those few coral into colonies but he had taken a fewer is better concept that really appealed to me. Sadly he's not on here that often anymore, but I imagine that his tank is looking awesome by now.

It looked really good then, the concept was very evident. Some of the tanks I've seen here in the early stages makes me think things like "Wow, if those few coral grow into true colonies..."

Diving in HI I got a really good idea of what a reef looks like. And it seemed to me a lot of one kind of coral, a little of some others... and then the shrimp, wrasses, snails, fish, star fish, eels, turtles, and a myriad of other organizms flitting about. A single colony bigger than the room where I keep my tank.

[Regric25]

This leads to another question and I hope the OP does not mind. If you are like me and have lots of small frags to grow out. Do you do crowd control by trimming back corals or do you let nature take its course and let stuff just grow in together?

Personally I am just letting everything grow in together. I have some palys that are growing SUPER fast and were taking over a rock pretty quickly so in an effort to control how many there are, I simply put my new RBTA right on top of them. Needless to say it eraticated some of them and whats left fits nicely with the anem. I am fixing to trim back some corals this weekend because they are starting to over grow some other favs but for the most part if a zoa or paly grows into a frog spawn or acan ill just let it ride unless of course I have a favorite of the 2 and its losing the battle then ill intervene.

Thoughts?

Woo Hoo 1000th Post!!

[rrasco]

A single colony bigger than the room where I keep my tank.

What, like this?